Recaps

Shunren developed his Yin Release and Genjutsu skills while forming a team with Kurenai and Shizune. Their survival exercise became a Root ambush, and Shunren’s Projection helped them survive the attack before Root withdrew as the Hokage’s Anbu approached.

• Shunren failed to master the Transformation Technique, trained in Yin Release, and greeted Obito on his way to the Academy.
• Feimu paired Shunren against Asuma, and Shunren used his focus and projected sword to end their dangerous fight in a draw.
• Kurenai taught Shunren the Mirage Technique, and he quickly learned to create illusions and fight with them.
• Kurenai chose Shunren as her exercise partner, and Shizune joined them as their third teammate.
• A disguised attacker killed Feimu, searched for Shunren, and later led the students on patrol while wearing Feimu’s face.
• Shunren guided Kurenai and Shizune to an outpost, while the impostor killed student groups and disguised Root forces attacked the Uchiha garrison.
• Shunren and his teammates fought the attackers, and Shunren identified them as Root Anbu after Uchiha Fushan and Hezi were left as the last Uchiha survivors.
• Shunren projected Zangetsu and killed three Root Anbu, but collapsed from exhaustion as Kurenai and Shizune fought the remaining attackers.
• Shunren regained his strength briefly and attacked Root, but his Projection failed, and a wounded Root Anbu ordered a retreat when he sensed the Hokage’s Anbu nearby.

Shunren graduated, formed Team 9, and proved himself in combat as the team joined Inoichi to reinforce Minato’s unit against Stone Ninja. The arc left Shunren and Kakashi fighting Kurogane, whose secret plan involved Shunren’s eyes and a curse seal near his heart.

• Danzo concealed his interest in Shunren from Hiruzen, while Konoha blamed the Sand Ninja for the Uchiha attack and Shunren continued training his projected weapons.
• Shunren passed the Academy exam using the Mirage Technique and joined Team 9 with Kurenai and Shizune under Inoichi Yamanaka.
• Inoichi tested Team 9, and Shunren unleashed Getsuga Tenshō before Inoichi declared the team had passed and sent them to clear out bandits.
• Shunren killed the bandits who attacked Kurenai and Shizune, spared one young bandit who severed his hand, then used the Hell Viewing Technique to make the boy kill himself.
• Inoichi taught Shunren to use the Mind’s Eye and Mind Transmission Technique, then led Team 9 to reinforce Minato’s team against Stone Ninja who had destroyed a village.
• Shunren defeated Gari with Getsuga Tenshō, and Kurenai, Kakashi, and Shunren killed another Stone Ninja before Inoichi’s interrogation of Gari triggered a deadly mental trap.
• Minato kept Kakashi, Shunren, and Shizune at the border while he fought Kurogane’s Stone Ninja force, and Shunren alerted Kakashi and Shizune when three Jonin approached.
• Shunren gravely wounded a Stone Jonin and fled with Kakashi and Shizune, but Kurogane caught up, revealed his interest in Shunren’s eyes and a curse seal, and knocked Kakashi away during their fight.

After surviving a deadly clash with Stone Ninja, Shunren joined the Uchiha Clan and built a new life with Hezi and Izumi while reuniting with Team 8. The team’s mission to deliver a deployment map was compromised by a Cloud Ninja infiltrator, leaving Shunren fighting Yotsuki Teki as his teammates carried on.

• Shunren and Kakashi fought Kurogane and two Stone Ninja Jonin, but Shunren collapsed after his projected weapons and Bloodthirsty Bead broke apart.
• White Zetsu restored Shunren with Yang Release, took his eyes for Madara, and left him with a curse seal on his heart.
• Shunren accepted Kyosho’s offer to become an Uchiha core disciple, then forced White Zetsu from his body and killed him with the Bloodthirsty Bead.
• Kurenai and Shunren confronted Mangshan and his lackeys, then Shunren defeated Uchiha Yuta in a dojo duel and revealed his three-tomoe Sharingan.
• Shunren took Hezi and Izumi into his home, and Kurenai told him that Inoichi had awakened and Shizune was leaving Konoha.
• Shunren and Kurenai caught up with Shizune at the village gate and said goodbye before she left with Tsunade.
• Team 8 welcomed Tenzen, who joined after a spar with Kurenai, and set out on a mission to deliver a confidential deployment map.
• The Cloud Ninja infiltrated Team 8’s mission, and Tenzen revealed herself as the Anbu agent Gei before Shunren stayed behind to fight Yotsuki Teki.
• Shunren used projected swords, his Sharingan, and a Railgun to battle Yotsuki Teki, while Kurenai and Tenzen continued onward with the mission scroll.

Shunren survived Konoha’s deceptions, trained through a year of conflict, and joined Fugaku’s force on the Western Front. As Konoha battled the Sand Ninja at Kikyo Mountain, Shunren uncovered an infiltration scheme targeting the intelligence and communications department.

• Shunren and Kurenai delivered a fake scroll to the Cloud Ninja, and Shunren accepted blame for the mission’s failure in exchange for forbidden techniques.
• Shunren fought and killed infiltrators from Waterfall and Grass, using the missions to sharpen his combat skills, while Konoha’s war spread across several fronts.
• Shunren drove off a Root Anbu sent by Danzo, then spent a year training and repelling surveillance before asking Fugaku to take him to the front.
• Pakura’s Sand Ninja force defeated Yuki Kan’s Mist Ninja ambush, helping the Sand Ninja sustain their campaign against Konoha.
• Fugaku led Shunren and fewer than a hundred Uchiha reinforcements across the desert to join Kyosho’s Western Army at Kikyo Mountain.
• As the Sand Ninja attacked Kikyo Mountain, Shunren guarded the intelligence unit and spotted suspicious infiltrators in the east sector.
• Shunren realized that young Sand Ninja Genin were concealing a Jonin squad that had lowered its chakra to pass the barrier, and Yashiro rushed to confront them.